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The 4th edition of ESRA Sound Night took place on Monday, September 26, 2022. The school's freestyle association SBS (Session Big Sound), artists from the school's label 24 Tracks Records, the bands Half Pipe and Find My Name took to the stage at the New...

Director of photography Philippe ROUSSELOT shared his experience with ESRA Bretagne students on September 14. The masterclass was led by Hussam Hindi, Professor of Directing at ESRA Bretagne and creator of the...

Discover the awards and festival selections for student films made in 2021. Ruby by Gwendoline LAURENT (ESRA 2022) PRIX▪︎ Best Student Short - Madrid Arthouse film festival - Madrid, Spain - March 2022▪︎ Honorable mention, best student film - AIMAFF -...

The Professional Jury for ESRA Animation Paris, Rennes and Nice students' end-of-year short films took place on Monday, July 11, 2022 at the Jean Renoir amphitheater. The jury was made up of animation film professionals. After viewing the...

The Professional Jury for the ISTS Video Games 2022 class in Paris took place on Tuesday June 14, 2022. The Jury was made up of two ESRA professors, Marie MULLER and Thierry DILGER, Jean-Christophe BELVAL, ISTS coordinator, and three...

The Professional Jury for the 3rd year films of the ESRA and ISTS 2022 ESRA Côte d'Azur class took place on Tuesday June 21, 2022 at the Cannes CINÉUM on the Georges Mélies campus. Jury members viewed the films and awarded the prizes...

The "Images hors la loi" conference organized by the LIRCES (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits, Culture et Sociétés) of the Université Côte d'Azur and ESRA Côte d'Azur took place from June 1 to 3. As part of its research policy, ESRA Côte...

The Professional Jury for the end-of-year films of the ESRA and ISTS 2022 Paris graduating class took place on Thursday June 16, 2022 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. Jury president Philippe LIORET was joined by a number of professionals to present the awards...

The Professional Jury for ESRA Brussels students' end-of-year films was held on Thursday June 9, 2022 at the CINEMATEK (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique). Amélie VAN ELMBT, director and screenwriter, chaired the jury for this ceremony. She was accompanied by...

For the 8th year, as part of their end-of-year "Sonorisation" production, ESRA Bretagne students in the ISTS section, Son Musique / Sonorisation option, are organizing a concert on Thursday, May 19, 2022 from 8pm to 1am at l'UBU, the venue managed by the...

Jordan KOUBY (ISTS 2006) and Frédéric VECTOL (ISTS 2006) Sound engineers, mixers, directors and founders of the QDS studio were the guests at an ISTS masterclass on April 20, hosted by Jean-Christophe BELVAL. The two sound professionals came to meet...

ESRA Côte d'Azur welcomed director Jean-Xavier DE LESTRADE on April 5 at the Georges Méliès campus in Cannes. Author of numerous documentaries, TV series and feature-length fiction films, Jean-Xavier DE LESTRADE won the Oscar for Best Film...

The Graduation Ceremony of the DESFA, degree d'Études Supérieures en Film d'Animation took place on Wednesday April 13, 2022, at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. Nicolas DEVEAUX, writer and director, was the patron of the class of 2021. He works on a number of...

Second-year ESRA and ISTS students are working with the children of the Fondation Action Enfance for the 5th year running. Four teams are taking part in Action Enfance fait son cinéma projects, involving young people in the Villages...

Director Jérôme SALLE came to meet students at ESRA Thursday on March 10. His film Zulu was screened before the meeting. Jérôme SALLE left school early and started working at the age of 16. Assistant photographer for the press, then...

Director, screenwriter and actor Emmanuel COURCOL was the guest at the last ESRA Thursday of the season, on March 31. After the screening of his film Cessez-le-Feu, students met the director. An actor in his early days, Emmanuel COURCOL...

The ESRA 48H awards ceremony was held on Saturday March 19 at the Jean Renoir amphitheater. The competition, organized by the Osmoz BDE students, took place in February. For 48 hours, teams of students wrote, shot and edited a film of 1 to 3 minutes...

The school organized a Professional Encounters day on March 18, 2022. During the day, ESRA Group students were able to meet with companies and professionals from all sectors of the audiovisual, sound and animation industries....

First Assistant Director Stéphane GLUCK (ESRA 1986) was the guest of ESRA Thursdays on March 3, 2022 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. After the screening of Luc BESSON's Valérian et la cité des mille planètes, students met Stéphane GLUCK....

The 10th edition of the ESRA 48H was held from Friday February 25 to Sunday February 27, 2022. The competition is organized by student members of the Osmoz BDE and consists of writing, shooting and editing a film lasting no more than 5 minutes in 48 hours,...

Director and screenwriter Bernard STORA was the guest of the ESRA Thursdays on February 10, 2022 at the Jean Renoir amphitheater. Students attended the screening of Bernard STORA's latest film, Villa Caprice, starring Niels ARESTRUP and Patrick...

ESRA students take part in the 12th Nikon Film Festival on the theme of "Un Rêve". This year's jury is chaired by Gilles LELLOUCHE and includes Audrey DIWAN, Lyna KHOUDRI, Augustin TRAPENARD and Pierre LESCURE. If the films...

Producer and director Stéphane DEMOUSTIER was the guest of the ESRA Thursdays on January 20, 2022 at the Jean Renoir amphitheater. After viewing his latest feature film, La fille au Bracelet, released in February 2020, students met Stéphane...

The special César 2022 Aftershort evenings organized by ESRA, in partnership with Format Court, took place on December 7 and 15, 2021 and January 11 and 18, 2022 at the Jean RENOIR amphitheater. Margaux LORIER, producer of the César for Best Short Film...